You are a manager for Riordan Manufacturing. You recently administered a series of assessments to your three employees to give you a better understanding of their different traits. You have begun putting together an Employee Portfolio for each employee. Now you must use the information from the assessments to create a Motivational Plan.

Resources: University of Phoenix Material: Employee Portfolio: Motivation Action Plan, Self Assessments from Week One and Week Two Individual Assignment.

Write a 500-word minimum summary in APA format. Per the Instructor Policies document, a minimum of 3 references are required. Include the following in your summary:

Determine the motivational strategy or strategies that would likely be most appropriate for each of your three employees based on their individual characteristics, and complete the Motivational Action Plan for each employee. How will you leverage employees evaluations to motivate each of the three employees?

Describe how the strategy selected connects to one or more of the motivational theories described in the text.

Submit the Summary. (Note: The Motivational Action Plan should not be submitted. This tool should only be used to organize your thoughts for your summary.)

Complete the Teamwork, Collaboration, and Conflict Resolution simulation found on the student website.

Discuss in your assigned LT forum the effects of the conflict management styles during the simulation. What effect does your own conflict mangement style have on the team? How do the team members vary in their approaches? Should you change your conflict management style or continue with what is comfortable for you?

Post an initial response of at least 200 words, and a minimum of two responses to your teammate’s posts in your assigned team forum. Your initial post and subsequent responses must be substantive.

You must post comments in a timely manner. You will be penalized for waiting to post your initial response and subsequent comments at the last minute (e.g., Monday evening).

Discussion Question 1 : What is a group? How does a group differ from a team? What are the advantages and disadvantages to group decision-making? Do you operate more in groups or teams at your workplace?

Discussion Question 2 : What is conflict? What are the differences among the traditional, human relations, and interactionist views of conflict? Describe a time when you experienced functional conflict in the workplace. What was the results?

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MGT 311 - Entire Week 3

Individual – Employee Portfolio: Motivation Action Plan

You are a manager for Riordan Manufacturing. You recently administered a series of assessments to your three employees to give you a better understanding of their different traits. You have begun putting together an Employee Portfolio for each employee. Now you must use the information from the assessments to create a Motivational Plan.

Resources: University of Phoenix Material: Employee Portfolio: Motivation Action Plan, Self Assessments from Week One and Week Two In